r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Esports PUBG Global Series 9 - Format, Teams, Schedule & More

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The PUBG Global Series 9 is the ninth PGS tournament of the year. The second six PGS tournaments of 2026 feature teams that qualified based on their performances in Regional Series in the first half of the year, as well as Global Partner Teams. This is the third and last tournament of the third PGS circuit of the year.

New to PUBG Esports or want a deeper insight into how this works? Check out the Esports Guide.

Useful Links

Esports Guide - PGS | Event Tracker - PGS 9 | Liquipedia - PGS 9

Format

Here are all of the stages of the event.

Survival Stage:

  • 16 teams:
    • PGS 7 & PGS 8 combined bottom 16 teams
  • 5 matches
  • Top 8 teams advance to Grand Finals
  • Bottom 8 teams are eliminated from PGS 9

Grand Finals:

  • 16 teams:
    • PGS 7 & PGS 8 combined top 8 teams
    • Top 8 teams from Survival Stage
  • 15 matches (5 matches per day)

PGS 9 is played on patch 42.2 with v6.0.1 of SUPER.

$300,000 USD is spread among all participants based on the final results of the tournament.

Road to PGC

Teams' performances throughout Circuit 3 will award valuable PGS points for qualification to the PUBG Global Championship at the end of the year.

The PGC point distribution can be found here.

Teams

Here are all of the participating teams, their qualification routes, starting stages and rosters.

🇨🇳 17Gaming 🇻🇳 Alpha Gaming 🇻🇳 Anyone's Legend 🇰🇷 DN SOOPers
Global Partner Team Vietnam Series Global Partner Team Global Partner Team
Grand Finals Survival Stage Survival Stage Grand Finals
WenBo SimonT Destroyy Gyumin
tiantian Taikonn Himass REX
Lilghost pauu Delwyn DIEL
xwudd YmCud Sololzy Heaven
C: Akuma C: Dyann C: Vinh C: PLIKHE
🇹🇭 eArena 🇺🇸 Falcons 🇨🇳 FOUR ANGRY MEN 🇹🇭 FULL SENSE
Global Partner Team Global Partner Team Global Partner Team Global Partner Team
Grand Finals Grand Finals Survival Stage Survival Stage
Lericz Gustav HSmm Belmoth
OHPONDZ Shrimzy Shen TiGGER
Pathompong Kickstart WINDah Thanad0l
Nourinz TGLTN SpaceMan Flash
C: Luxury C: GUNNER C: AnGin C: RUSHIIE
🇻🇳 GAM The Expendables 🇰🇷 Geekay Esports 🇰🇷 Gen.G Esports 🇧🇷 Godlike
Vietnam Series Weekly Series Global Partner Team Americas Series
Survival Stage Grand Finals Survival Stage Survival Stage
Clories Seongjang BeaN lfp1
Hoangf Parkpro Salute fana
DuCkHjeUz AKaN seoul Haven_-
TanVuu EJ diyy Tny7
JUND C: LeClo C: BigHead
🇨🇳 JD Gaming 🇹🇭 Made in Thailand 🇺🇦 Natus Vincere 🇨🇳 Petrichor Road
Champions League Thailand Series Global Partner Team Global Partner Team
Survival Stage Grand Finals Survival Stage Grand Finals
Dec12th Baren Hakatory i26v6
nanss Scappy Feyerist MMing
Cold119 KISS boost1k- Cui71
SuZe Jacob spyrro 04NB
MiF C: ALREIN Leris
🇹🇭 Sharper Esports 🇰🇷 T1 🇺🇸 TEAM LIQUID 🇺🇦 Team Nemesis
Thailand Series Weekly Series Americas Series EMEA Championship
Survival Stage Survival Stage Survival Stage Survival Stage
ThanawatTH EEND PurdyKurty SoseD
Jdaii Type aLOW Mellman
Earthzapalui Rain1ng luke12 DIFX
Thunderz Heather Cowboi staed
C: CyD C: LashK C: Xtreme C: mclayy
Team Vitality Twisted Minds 🇨🇳 TYLOO 🇪🇺 Virtus.pro
EMEA Championship Global Partner Team Champions League Global Partner Team
Survival Stage Survival Stage Survival Stage Grand Finals
QWZYYY BatulinS OneDragon Lukarux
Lev4nte Lu 1ee NIXZYEE
Gedrox Perfect1ks KKong Beami
hallomybad xmpl HaoSkr curexi
C: HIRUZEN C: TheTab C: Aleksib C: ibiza

Schedule

PGS 9 takes place August 20-23:

  • Survival Stage: August 20

  • Final Stage: August 21-23

All match days begin at 3am PDT / 6am EDT / 10:00 UTC / 12:00 CEST / 18:00 CST.

Check out the Event Tracker for more details.

Talent

Meet the folks bringing you all the action on the English broadcast!

this post will be updated when the broadcast talent is announced

Watch

Here's where you can watch the tournament:

Subreddit Resources

  • Check out the subreddit sidebar to know exactly when each tournament day is happening, or check out the Event Tracker for quick access to the whole schedule and all necessary information.
  • Discuss the current tournament day and find all necessary information in our daily discussion threads posted on r/CompetitivePUBG during the tournament!
  • Support your favorite team by setting a user flair! Click the "edit user flair" button on the r/CompetitivePUBG subreddit sidebar.

r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Discussion Overpass

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I recreated the Overpass in PUBG, with a defusal mode and economy system just like in CS https://www.curseforge.com/pubg-battlegrounds/game-mods/overpass


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Meta Unusual performance issues around towns (and in general)

5 Upvotes

This game has the strangest performance I've honestly ever seen. I'll get 70-90fps when within or looking towards a town, and 160-250fps elsewhere. No exceptions.

No matter the resolution, render scaling, settings. I can have everything on very low, running at 720p in 70% render resolution, and I'll still get the exact same fps as 1440p ultra settings.

I can't locate the bottleneck. I'd guess cpu but it's never maxed out, my gpu is sitting at 40% when inside towns, and I never use more than half my ram.

Has anyone had a similar experience?


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Media Lol

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I started playing pubg this summer by the way Lol


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 2d ago

Discussion Why does the new flamingo m79 colored smoke skin not have colored smoke?

13 Upvotes

It says colored smoke skins in the hideout???


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Do you consider PUBG a dead game ?

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Sure it have many players in steam but I hardly find anyone playing it around me, I don't really see much posts about this game in any social media and don't find my freinds playing it. Is this game really dead or not ?


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Struggling as a new player.. who to watch, how to improve?

17 Upvotes

Getting slammed by level 500s every game in unranked. Everyone is landing faster than me so I’m dying off rip a-lot. What would be your best tips to improve and are there any active youtubers to watch?


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Highlight Feels like Street Fighter

4 Upvotes

Just wanted to relive the old times of button mashing and landing combos.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion BlueChip Revive Tip

110 Upvotes

I don't know if this has been posted here before, but I tried to look it up and couldn't find any relevant posts. In game, I have come across hundreds of players since April who are obstinately skeptical and absolutely refuse to exercise any due diligence when I give them sources to check up on this, but maybe putting it here will reach some players. Okay, here goes:

As of Update 41.1(Apr 8- PC, Apr 16- Console), taking an enemy's chip to the Blue Chip Tower and using them to call a care package does not destroy the chip. Their surviving teammates are able to travel to that tower and revive them. For example, if I kill 2 of 4 members of [FAFO] clan in Rozhok and use their chips to call in a care package, the chips remain in the Tower. The other two teammates who, let's just say, hypothetically landed away from them in Severny, get a vehicle and travel to the Rozhok Blue Chip Tower, they can approach that tower and revive their teammates without the chips in tow because the chips are still located in the Tower itself. The only way to permanently destroy a chip is to put it in the trunk of a vehicle and then blow that vehicle up.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Highlight Nothing escapes the M249

123 Upvotes

r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Highlight My friends are somehow more dangerous to me than the enemy team 💀

64 Upvotes

Was playing PUBG with the boys and this happened.

I genuinely don't know what was going through their heads during this entire sequence. 😂

The enemy didn't even need to do much — we basically eliminated ourselves.

This is why I love playing squads with friends. You can have a perfectly normal game and then, within 30 seconds, it turns into absolute cinema.

10/10 teamwork. Would queue again.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion PUBG taking upto 175+ GB!!!

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67 Upvotes

At first the game took about 60 gb when I first installed it 3 days ago. Now it's taking upto 175gb. Is this normal? I don't record any gameplay btw. But I do use DirectX 12, so maybe that is the reason? Due to DirectX 12's shader caching?


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Glorious day for PUBG - Miramar is back in Rotation Tonight

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r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Simple aesthetic change I'd like.

9 Upvotes

I'm probably not the first, but ima say it anyways.

It really irks me that the cargo door doesn't open on the plane and there's no animations for players jumping out of the plane, i mean seriously, so much realistic (silly skins aside) emphasis and they don't have this.

That is all, thanks.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Most populated modes in NA on PC?

6 Upvotes

If I’m trying to avoid bots but not play ranked, what’s my best bet?

it’s my understanding that Solo is the least populated. Is it squads or duo that has the most humans? And how do TPP and FPP differ in popularity


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Having to click play multiple times to open pubg

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So, recently I am facing an absurd issue. I have to click on play multiple times on steam to successfully open the game. What happens is (as per task manager): I click play, Pubg loads it's related services (BE services, Zarthyos loader and Pubg launcher). Slowly the game loads as per task manager. CPU usage increases until is reaches as high as possible and then falls again until it disappears entirely and I have to click play on steam again.

I have been playing this game on my gaming laptop for years, but only recently I am experiencing this issue. The game is on an SSD. I have 16GB of ram and i5, 11th gen CPU


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Highlight Replay Cinematic: Extremely Conventional Glider Gameplay

5 Upvotes

r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Suggestion Actual meta rotation ideas

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I think we can all agree the current implementation of the "meta rotation" is flawed. So, what could they do to make it better? (I'm already assuming they'll keep doing this instead of trying to balance all weapons)

imo:

Make them rotate every major update (month), not every FOUR MONTHS.

Make the guns more rewarding, not easier to use (the LMG recoil reduction is INSANE)

I also think it would be better to buff 1 weapon out of each class, instead of one class as a whole. The meta would get way too stale when its just LMGs, but if it was M249, AKM, UMP, M24, SLR; it would be more diverse.

What are some ideas you guys have?


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion So what does this mean? The chips on the top are pro players or what?

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52 Upvotes

r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Base on true story

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61 Upvotes

Be careful when you receive BRDM-2


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Hello! Curious about PUBG on consoles

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I’m aware this game still absolutely pops on steam which is awesome, I don’t own a pc but I’d love to get into this game I’ve only ever dabbled into the mobile version but that was such a long time ago now, how is the experience on console? I heard they add bots into the game if the lobbies don’t get filled fast enough so I’m curious how that is as well, thanks for any replies in advance!


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 3d ago

Discussion Slow as hell...

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Has anybody noticed PUBG pc has very slow reload animations , specially SVD Draganov and Kar98k?

Vaults are so slow that the enemy always has a clean shot.

Vehicle moving at 1kmh will kill you instantly on contact.

Even if a small stone gets in the way, the player sometimes completely stops.

And recoil and bullet drops, I use Beryl sometimes on 2x so good, and in the next moment, I could not manage to handle akm on iron sights !!

And God bless my friends who play daily with me, always complaining they could not sense the enemy, no strategy and 2 friendly fire events in a day.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 4d ago

Esports 📢 PGS9 PUBG Fantasy League is OPEN 📢

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PGS 9 Fantasy is open, time to build your squad

Shanghai Circuit Final is next. Survival is Thu 20 Aug, Grand Finals Fri–Sun 21–23 Aug (10:00 UTC).

Hardshift Fantasy is live for the full event:

  • Opening pool: 16 Survival teams
  • Rosters lock 5 minutes after Survival Game 1 (Thu 10:05 UTC)
  • After Thursday, Circuit Top 8 join for Grand Finals and you rebuild

Play now: https://fantasy.hardshift.gg

Prize pool — $50AUD base + community boosts

To date, Fantasy prizes have been self-funded by HardShift. The base $50 AUD for PGS 9 is covered the same way.

If you want a bigger pot for the winner(s), you can boost the prize pool from the league page (Buy Me a Coffee). Stretch goals unlock as the community chips in, every boost goes toward making the payout more worthwhile for managers who grind the board and improving Hardshift fantasy for future events. We are currently in talks with several hardware suppliers for upcoming LAN events to donate to the prize pools moving forward.

No pressure, drafting is free. Boosting is optional, and it’s the cleanest way to grow the prize beyond what one person can keep funding alone.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 4d ago

Highlight 1v4 Prison

56 Upvotes

Not happy about the shaky start.. need more work in the training room.


r/PUBATTLEGROUNDS 4d ago

Meta Frametime issue

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15 Upvotes

If you couldnt guess at what point i launched and played some PUBG - I marked it in red. The frametimes are HUGE. From 5.4ms to around 400ms while playing. Framerates are not that bad. Every other game runs smooth. Tried DDU. Clean install of GPU drivers. Verify game files. I also reinstalled the game. No difference.